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companies mentioned in news below include:- Apacer, Axxana, Cisco,
Kaminario, SandForce, Super Talent, Web-Feet Research, Western Digital |
Kaminario launches RAM SSD
Editor:-
June 14, 2010 - Kaminario
launched its 1st product - an FC
SAN connected acceleration appliance in which
a
grid of blade servers access upto terabytes of shared memory.
Pricing
starts at $200,000
Editor's comments:- the applications
speedups quoted by Kaminario are similar to the best figures achieved by high
end rackmount SSDs from NextIO,
Texas Memory Systems
and Violin Memory.
Kaminario
doesn't call its product an SSD - but it integrates
techniques which
have been used by SSD customers for many years - to place data hot spots into
memory.
Unlike a vanilla
RAM SSD - the company
says the data deployment is done automatically and transparently by its
proprietary OS. Kaminario's product isn't an
SSD - but conceptually the
best way to understand what it does is to think of it as a
RAM SSD ASAP. The
exact speedup and cost effectiveness achieved by this type of product is
highly application sensitive. Another similar product (which bundles servers
with massive memory) is the Oracle-focused
OPERA from Texas Memory
Systems.
Super Talent does that SandForce thing
Editor:- June
14, 2010 - Super
Talent Technology
announced
availability of a new range of
2.5"
SATA MLC SSDs which
use SandForce
controllers.
Capacities and street prices are as follows:- 60GB $199 ,
120GB $349, 240GB $669, 480GB (contact vendor).
Joe James, Director
of Marketing at Super Talent said "The TeraDrive CT is now our fastest
desktop/laptop upgrade SSD. It has an amazing feature set combined with
exceptional sequential and random transfer speeds and best-in-class reliability."
SSD Markets and Apps - new report from Web-Feet Research
Editor:-
June 10, 2010 -Web-Feet
Research has published its 8th annual report on SSD Markets and
Applications ($7,500).
How
well is SSD adoption in the Client, Enterprise, and Commercial Markets
progressing?
What will be the challenges that will influence SSD
acceptance and adoption rates in these segments?
Although there is
plenty of coverage on SSDs in
blogs
and other
media,
WFR answers these important questions and differentiates its study by
providing a detailed analysis of the client, commercial and enterprise end use
markets for SSDs and incorporates the analysis of HDD storage for the same
competing end use markets.
Detailed forecasts for both SSD and hard
disk drive storage for these end use markets are provided. Also included are the
technical and implementation challenges facing SSDs with respect to: capacity,
reliability, density, operating temperature, and mechanical ruggedness as they
relate to flash component performance, cost and integration.
Editor's
comments:- I agree with the sentiment hinted at above by one of the
report's authors Alan Niebel
- that with thousands of blogs on the subject of SSDs - it's hard for newcomers
to this market to judge the provenance or terroir of the content they see.
The "SSD analyst" market is no different in that respect
to the SSD vendor market -
in being vulnerable to obfuscating froth percolating up from the
SSD market bubble.
That's why in my SSD
market research & analysts directory I've only listed a small number of
elect companies who - I am sure - have been looking into this market for a
long time.
Cisco launches desktop iSCSI for SMBs
Editor:- June
10, 2010 - Cisco Systems
today launched
a
family
of desktop (2 to 6 bay)
iSCSI storage boxes for
SMBs.
The 12TB model costs approx
$4,000.
StorageSearch.com asks - Could TB HDDs be given away free?
Editor:-
June 10, 2010 - a new article published today on StorageSearch.com asks -
Could terabyte hard
drives ever be given away free?
I think could that be a really
good business strategy to prolong the life of the
HDD market beyond
2016. Wonder
why?... ...read
the article |
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| UK diary
date - Energy Data Storage 2010 |
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| Editor:- June 10, 2010 - StorageSearch.com is a media
sponsor for - Energy
Data Storage 2010 - which will take place in Kensington, London, UK in
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The new event -
which is organized by the
SMi Group - will
form a platform for the energy sector to discuss and compare their unique
digital data storage needs. It will also incorporate associated issues
surrounding business continuity and information security and how these all form
a part of consolidating your data storage strategy. Major themes include:-
- disaster recovery and business continuity
- information security
- storage networks and architecture
- data delivery / keeping up with user demand
Speakers include experts from leading companies in the oil,
chemical and energy utility markets as well as vendors and consultants who
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Editor:- June 9, 2010 - Western Digital
introduced the
WD TV Live
Plus HD media player (US$149.99) which connects directly to a users' HDTV
and automatically converts and plays
many file
formats stored on a connected
USB drive.
(But
it doesn't support protected premium content such as movies or music from
iTunes.)
The WiFi enabled box (via optional extra USB adapter) also
includes a user remote interface to the Netflix
online movie on demand service. |
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survey shows most users
think they can't afford zero loss disaster recovery
Editor:- June
9, 2010 - Axxana
today
published
findings from a survey it funded to understand the role that
cost plays in
inhibiting user adoption of zero data loss disaster recovery solutions
such as its own SSD based solutions.
'This survey has really shown
how today's end users still feel that eliminating data loss though a disaster
recovery strategy is still out of their budget,' said Eli Efrat, Axxana's CEO.
'Although cost is still an important consideration, the results support our
strategy and I am confident that a year from now solutions such as our Phoenix
System will have a much bigger foothold in the market because they make zero
data loss DR an affordable option.'
SSD Backup
Apacer samples MO-300 mSATA SSDs
Editor:- June 9,
2010 - Apacer
has started
sampling its 1st SSDs which comply with JEDEC's spec
MO-300
for mSATA SSD - which is about 75% smaller than a typical
2.5" SSD.
Apacer's
miniature SATA Disk
Module II M1 SLC
SSD has R/W speeds upto 100MB/sec and capacities options from 4GB - 32GB -
whereas the MLC version R/W speeds are upto 95MB/s and 50MB/s and MLC
capacities are 2x greater. Both new SSD families include global wear
leveling, S.M.A.R.T technology,
8-bit/15-bit ECC
function and intelligent power failure recovery, and are processed compliant
with MIL-STD-810F.
new article - the SSD Heresies
Editor:- June 8, 2010
- more than 10 key areas of fundamental disagreement within the SSD industry
are listed and discussed in a new expanded article published here on StorageSearch.com -
the SSD Heresies
Why
can't SSD's true believers agree about a single coherent vision for the
future of solid state storage? ...read the article |
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